SLIDE 13 ca caravan ma maschera: : br brief cu curricu culum
Giorgia Goldoni was born in Modena-Italy, and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and at the International Theater School of Rome (Lecoq). Her artistic research was dedicated to the study of masks, puppets and visual elements applied to theater. She creates masks and puppets in various techniques and materials. Leonardo Garcia Gonçalves was born in São Paulo, and began his artistic research at the UNICAMP university of the city of Campinas (BR). He ended his studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris where his research thesis was published in the book "The Commedia dell'arte et les danses populaires brésiliennes". His artistic research investigates the convergences and divergences between the manifestations of popular culture in which the use of the mask, visual elements and dance are adopted. He is an invited artist within the State Theater School SP ESCOLA DE TEATRO, in the city of Sãp Paulo (BR). In 2010 Giorgia and Leonardo were selected to participate to the European project Masks On Stage, thanks to which, between 2010 and 2011, they received an international professional training, sponsored by the European community-EACEA study center. The participants (10 in total) lived in artistic residencies in Italy, France, Germany and the Czech Republic deepening their researches about the traditional and popular local theatre culture. Caravan Maschera was founded in 2010, with the desire to experiment and deepen the forms
- f theater in which the use of the image and visual elements prevail: puppetry, animated
forms, masks, clowns, physical theater, fool and visual theater. The company annually produces shows, workshops and artistic residences that contribute to nurturing and deepening their artistic research in performing arts, caracterized for the hybrid dialogue between various visual and theatrical languages. The artistic research of the company and the quality of the projects and productions have obtained the patronage of large institutions: Petrobras, Banco do Brasil, Banco Caixa Federal, ProAC, Funarte, Ministério da Cultura, SESI and European EACEA. In Brazil, the company is headquartered in the TERRITÓRIO DAS ARTES CARAVAN MASCHERA, located in a rural district (quartiere)of the city of Atibaia (SP): the community center of the district is transformed into a cultural center and a space for trials, residences and cultural exchanges within the peripheral context. Art dissemination and sensitization activities are carried out: courses are offered that offer integrated didactics between the arts (plastic arts, theater, photography, art history, cinema and video) in a project that promotes dialogue and parallelism between the various artistic events (www.projetoorun-aiye.com). Since 2015 the Company integrate the universitarian group of research in visual poetries of the UNESP university in São Paulo.
